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Radeon R9 290 vs Radeon RX 5500

Intro

The Radeon R9 290 comes with core clock speeds of 800 MHz on the GPU, and 1250 MHz on the 4096 MB of GDDR5 memory. It features 2560 SPUs as well as 160 Texture Address Units and 64 ROPs.

Compare those specifications to the Radeon RX 5500, which has clock speeds of 1670 MHz on the GPU, and 1750 MHz on the 4096 MB of GDDR6 memory. It features 1408 SPUs along with 88 TAUs and 32 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 5500 150 Watts
Radeon R9 290 300 Watts
Difference: 150 Watts (100%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon R9 290 is 40% quicker than the Radeon RX 5500 in general, due to its higher bandwidth. (explain)

Radeon R9 290 320000 MB/sec
Radeon RX 5500 229376 MB/sec
Difference: 90624 (40%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 5500 is a little bit (approximately 15%) better at AF than the Radeon R9 290. (explain)

Radeon RX 5500 146960 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R9 290 128000 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 18960 (15%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX 5500 will be a little bit (approximately 4%) better at AA than the Radeon R9 290, and will be able to handle higher resolutions without slowing down too much. (explain)

Radeon RX 5500 53440 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 290 51200 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 2240 (4%)

Please note that the above 'benchmarks' are all just theoretical - the results were calculated based on the card's specifications, and real-world performance may (and probably will) vary at least a bit.

Price Comparison

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Specifications

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Model Radeon R9 290 Radeon RX 5500
Manufacturer AMD AMD
Year November 2013 October 2019
Code Name Hawaii PRO Navi 14 XT
Memory 4096 MB 4096 MB
Core Speed 800 MHz 1670 MHz
Memory Speed 5000 MHz 3500 GB/s
Power (Max TDP) 300 watts 150 watts
Bandwidth 320000 MB/sec 229376 MB/sec
Texel Rate 128000 Mtexels/sec 146960 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 51200 Mpixels/sec 53440 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 2560 1408
Texture Mapping Units 160 88
Render Output Units 64 32
Bus Type GDDR5 GDDR6
Bus Width 512-bit 128-bit
Fab Process 28 nm 7 nm
Transistors 6200 million 6400 million
Bus PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 4.0 ×16
DirectX Version DirectX 11.2 DirectX 12
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.3 OpenGL 4.6

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the largest amount of data (counted in megabytes per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface in one second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that are processed per second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the graphics card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics chip can possibly write to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel rate is also dependant on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.

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Radeon R9 290

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Radeon RX 5500

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Please note that the price comparisons are based on search keywords - sometimes it might show cards with very similar names that are not exactly the same as the one chosen in the comparison. We do try to filter out the wrong results as best we can, though.

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